. Review of reviews and world's work. and it. They con-cluded it was his luck Itwas not. It was his told me once after sucha time that it was a mat-ter of conviction with himthat no frank and honestman could be in tlie longrun entangled by thesnares of plotters, what-ever appearances mightfor the moment he walked unharmed in it all. Bismarckconfounded the councils of Europe at times bypractising Roosevelts plan as a trick. He spokethe truth bluntly when the plotters expected himto lie, and rounded them up easily. One charge his enemies made against him inwhich there was tr
. Review of reviews and world's work. and it. They con-cluded it was his luck Itwas not. It was his told me once after sucha time that it was a mat-ter of conviction with himthat no frank and honestman could be in tlie longrun entangled by thesnares of plotters, what-ever appearances mightfor the moment he walked unharmed in it all. Bismarckconfounded the councils of Europe at times bypractising Roosevelts plan as a trick. He spokethe truth bluntly when the plotters expected himto lie, and rounded them up easily. One charge his enemies made against him inwhich there was truth. It summed itself all upin that with a heat that was virtual acknowledg-ment of its being the whole arraignment : thatthere was always a fight where he was, Alwaystrouble, said the peace-at-any-price men, whocounseled surrender when Roosevelt was fightingfor a decent Sunday through the enforcement ofthe law compelling the saloons to close. Neverany rest. No ! There was never any rest forthe lawbreakers when he was around, nor for. A FIREPLACE IN THE AT OYSTER BAY. 184 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. those who would avoid <trouble by weaklysurrendering to them. Roosevelt gauged NewYork exactly right when he set about his turbu-lent programme of enforcement of law. Thescandal was not that we were being robbedby political cutthroats, but that we submittedtamely. The formula we heard so often fromhis lips in the years that followed—honesty,manliood, courage—was the exact prescriptionwe needed. We in the metropolis are abun-dantly able to run the robbers out of town andkeep them out by just following the road hemade for us when he ran them out of the policedepartment. But he made it, fighting. It wastrue that there was rest while he wasat it, night or day. When he had battled allday in Mulberry Street, he would sometimes getup at two oclock in the morning and go out onpatrol to find out the policemen who were steal-ing the citys time. I loved to
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